Jan 30
New WordPress-based Site: AnnyChih.com
Two weekends ago my sister-in-law Anny Chih asked for some help sprucing up her WordPress blog. She wanted to apply for The Best Job in the World – the Tourism Queensland online video contest where you post a 1 minute video application to become the island caretaker of the beautiful Hamilton Island in Australia – [...]
Jan 24
Code snippets from my WordCamp presentation
Here are some code snippets from my WordCamp Whistler presentation. This article will be expanded in the coming week but in the meantime here they are for anyone wanting to play around with them:
Custom Page Templates in 5 lines of code
<?php
/*
Template Name: Whatever
*/
?>
Custom Fields in one line of code
<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘$key’, true); ?>
Custom Field [...]
Jan 12
Speaking about WordPress as CMS at WordCamp Whistler – What do you want me to cover?
I am speaking at WordCamp Whistler on January 24th on the topic of using WordPress to create, design and manage “non-blog” web sites – in other words using WordPress as a CMS. If you follow this blog you know that I’ve been working with this concept for a long time and that in almost every [...]
Jan 02
2008 Weblog Awards Finalist
Design is Philosophy is among the finalists in the Best Blog Design category of the 2008 Weblog Awards. It is an honour to be mentioned among great blogs like such as Verlee’s, Rin-Wendy and OurWorld 2.0 and I wish all the contestants the very best of luck.
Voting begins on Monday and is only open for [...]
Typograph Theme Update – Now With Threaded Comments
The Typograph theme has proven to be incredibly popular and I have gotten tons of emails and comments about it with suggestions of improvements and updates. As an answer to all the input I have uploaded the 0.8.5 version of the theme to the WordPress Theme Directory where you can download it to spiff up [...]